Brazilian cruiser Rio Grande do Sul
# Brazilian cruiser Rio Grande do Sul

Rio Grande do Sul was a Bahia-class cruiser built for the Brazilian Navy in 1909–10.

## Construction and commissioning

Rio Grande do Sul was part of a large 1904 naval building program by Brazil. Also planned as part of this were the two Minas Geraes-class dreadnoughts, ten Pará-class destroyers, three submarines and a submarine tender. With a design that borrowed heavily from the British Adventure-class scout cruisers, Rio Grande do Sul's keel was laid in 1907 in Armstrong Whitworth's Elswick, Newcastle upon Tyne yard. Construction took about a year and a half, and she was launched on 20 April 1909 with Madame A. M. Gomez Ferraz being the sponsor on behalf of Her Excellency Senhora Dr. Carlos Barbosa. As a class, Bahia and Rio Grande do Sul were the fastest cruisers in the world when they were commissioned, and the first in the Brazilian Navy to utilize steam turbines for propulsion.

## Endnotes

* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Scheina, "Brazil," 405.
* ↑ "Rio Grande do Sul 1910".
* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "Rio Grande do Sul I," Serviço de Documentação da Marinha – Histórico de Navios.
* 1 2 3 4 5 6 Moore ed., Janes Fighting Ships, 300.
* ↑ "Cruzador Bahia – C 12/C 2 Archived 26 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine" (in Portuguese), Navios de Guerra Brasileiros. Retrieved 8 November 2012.
* 1 2 Scheina, "Brazil," 403.
* ↑ Scheina, Latin America's Wars, 37.
* ↑ The Engineer. Vol. 107. 1909. p. 420.
